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Apple supplier Foxconn replaces 60,000 factory workers with robots
Thirty-five Taiwanese companies, including Apple’s supplier Foxconn, spent a total of 4 billion yuan…
Apple supply chain to start shipping next-gen iPhones at the end of Q3
The upstream supply chain is expected to begin shipping Apple’s upcoming next-generation iPhone products…
Apple suppliers ramp up hiring in preparation for iPhone 7 series
Apple’s top suppliers have started mass-hirings at least a month earlier than in previous years in which Apple has launched new iPhones…
Apple supplier Sharp names Foxconn exec as CEO to spearhead revival
Japan’s Sharp Corp has named a top Foxconn executive as CEO and said it would seal a $3.5 billion stake sale…
Apple’s biggest China problem: iPhone’s strong encryption
It isn’t clear why China suspended iTunes and iBooks, but I’m betting on iPhone encryption as the key issue….
Apple supplier Sharp preps AMOLED displays after Foxconn acquisition
A main motivation of Foxconn Electronics’ investment in Sharp is to develop AMOLED panels…
Did Apple help Foxconn buy Sharp?
Foxconn’s purchase of a 66% stake in Sharp for the reduced price of $3.5 billion is questionable…
Apple supplier Foxconn agrees to buy Sharp after slashing original offer
Taiwan’s Foxconn agreed to acquire Japan’s Sharp Corp. at a big discount to its original offer…
Sharp Corp. liabilities list covered worst-case scenarios; takeover talks extended
Top Sharp officials had not examined the list and had not planned to share it with Foxconn…
Why Foxconn’s multi-billion-dollar deal for Sharp is dead in the water
Board members of struggling Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. met Thursday and agreed to sell the company, but…
Foxconn’s $5.1 billion bid for Sharp could be good for Apple, too
LCD screens are expensive. They’re the most costly component in the iPhone 6 Plus, by about three times more than the next part…
Apple supplier Sharp accepts Hon Hai’s $6.2 billion takeover offer; Hon Hai says deal on hold
Sharp’s board on Thursday morning decided to accept a roughly 700 billion yen ($6.2 billion) takeover offer…
Foxconn fast-tracks $5.5 billion Sharp takeover bid
Taiwanese iPhone assembler Foxconn is pushing to wrap up a takeover of Sharp Corp. within days…
Video claims to reveal Apple’s forthcoming 4-inch iPhone
One of the first demo examples from Foxconn…
State-backed Japanese fund in race with Foxconn to save Sharp
A state-backed Japanese fund is frontrunner to rescue Sharp Corp, ahead of a rival approach from Apple supplier Foxconn…
Apple Watch 2 rumored to go into trial production this month
For the past few months, more and more clues hinting at the Watch 2 emerged…
Foxconn plans ‘rare’ holiday as iPhone output fears rattle investors
Foxconn, assembler of most of Apple Inc’s latest iPhones, will cut working hours in a rare move that analysts interpreted as a sign of…
Rumor: Apple will be unveiling the 4-inch iPhone 7c next September, not an ‘iPhone 6c’ in February
According to available information from companies that supply parts to the company Foxconn…
Analyst: iPad Pro and Apple Pencil hit by production issues
Apple is seeing less than satisfactory output of iPad Pro’s massive 12.9-inch display…
Bank of Foxconn: iPhone assembler makes push into China financial services
Apple Inc.’s largest contract electronics manufacturer has quietly set up half a dozen financial services companies in China over the past year…
Hon Hai beats estimates as Apple forecasts record quarter
Revenue growth of 12 percent was Hon Hai’s strongest for the peak third-quarter period in five years…
Ming-Chi Kuo: No Apple iPhones with AMOLED displays until 2019 at the earliest
Apple’s iPhone will stick with TFT-LCD panels until at least 2018…
Hon Hai considering $1.7 billion stake in Sharp LCD business; to ask Apple to invest a ‘few hundred million’
Hon Hai planned to ask iPhone maker and customer Apple Inc, which is also a client of Sharp, to invest a ‘few hundred million dollars’ to help…
Hon Hai offers to buy Sharp’s LCD business, wants Apple funds
Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co offered to buy Sharp Corp’s struggling liquid panel display business…
Apple suppliers Sharp, Foxconn in talks for LCD joint venture
Japanese supplier Sharp is negotiating with Hon Hai Precision Industry…
Apple prepping 5-inch ‘iPhone 6c’ according to Foxconn insider
The 5-incher will apparently rock an 8 MP camera, a dual-LED flash and be powered by an A9 processor…
iPhone assembler Hon Hai shows slower sequential earnings growth as customers hold out for next-gen models
The Taiwan-based iPhone assembler said net profit for the three months ended June 30 was up 27% from a year earlier…
Foxconn in talks to build Apple factories in India to assemble iPhones, iPads, and iPods
Foxconn Technology is in talks to manufacture Apple’s iPhone in India…
Apple’s iPhone 6/Plus powers Hon Hai to highest first-quarter profit growth in a decade
Strong demand for large-screen iPhones helped Apple Inc.’s major assembler…
Where Apple products are born: A rare glimpse inside Foxconn’s factory gates
A special assistant to CEO Terry Gou traveled from Shanghai…
JPMorgan: How to make money from the Apple Watch and Apple Watch II
Implications for supply chain names for Apple Watch and Apple Watch II in 2016…
Apple brokers deal for Quanta to borrow 3,000 Foxconn workers for Apple Watch production
In a deal brokered by Apple, Foxconn is lending Quanta Computer 3,000 workers…
Internal Foxconn sketch said to be of Apple’s ‘iPad Pro’ revealed
A new internal sketch of Apple’s larger-screened iPad Pro…
Foxconn robots better, but still not precise enough to assemble Apple iPhones
Although Foxbots have been used in the company’s production line ever since June…
Hon Hai profit growth slows as poor Windows PC sales offset iPhone demand
Hon Hai, the largest company in billionaire Gou’s Foxconn Technology Group…
Pegatron expands capacity due to strong global demand for Apple’s iPhone 6/Plus
Apple assembler Pegatron is expanding iPhone 6/Plus production capacity…
Ralph Nader to Apple CEO Tim Cook: Pay other companies’ workers double and cut their hours in half
Ralph Nadar, a five-time failed U.S. presidential candidate, has sent an open letter…
Foxconn looks to build massive iPhone display factory in northern China
Foxconn, the company that assembles the bulk of the world’s iPhones, is discussing…
Foxconn’s CEO: iPhone 6 Plus ‘bendgate’ nothing more than FUD from competitors
This was all caused by distortions from competitors. Don’t blindly listen to it…
Foxconn CEO disappointed with current-gen iPhone-assembling robots; next-gen ‘Foxbots’ in the works
Foxconn – who is responsible for assembling the new iPhones – is failing to meet the high demand…
Despite highest daily output ever, Foxconn struggles to meet massive iPhone 6 demand
Those who want the world’s best smartphone may have to wait for weeks to get Apple’s new iPhones…
